Saturday 5.5.12 at 10 am
place of meeting: Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art and Media Center
An audio tour featuring 3 different narratives of Ein Karem
Speakers: Oumar Ighbaria, Rachel Cohen-Taragan, Pnina Ein-Mor
for more info please see Hebrew - the tour will be in Hebrew
The 29th Jerusalem Film Festival- July 5th -14th, 2012 in collaboration with Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art and Media Center
The Annual Video Art and Experimental Film Award
The competition will take place this year in its 8th edition within the ‘Intersections’ program, during the 29th Jerusalem Film Festival. This call is relevant to artists and filmmakers who work in Israel and to Israeli ones based abroad, whose films has been produced in the years 2010-2011 and haven’t been screened in video or film festivals in Israel. The films/videos won’t exceed 15 minutes including titles. The participating works will be chosen by an artistic committee.
This year we will grant two awards: First prize- 6,000 nis (on behalf of the Jerusalem Foundation).
Second prize- 4,000 nis (on behalf of the Ostrovsky Family Fund)
For registration, please fill the on-line application form at the following address: http://wolgin.jer-cin.org.il/?id=3
Until May 7th 2012. Last date for works delivery: May 7th 2012. The films should be delivered in 3 DVD copies, with a written summary of 300 words max and the artist’s contact details to the following address: To Nirith - The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Award - The Jerusalem Cinemateque, 11 Hebron rd, POBox 8561 Jerusalem, zip 91083 **only one work per artist will be considered
For more info: prod@mamuta.org
www.mamuta.org || http://www.jer-cin.org.il
Sat. 10.3. 20:00
The Museum of the Contemporary collection “The Storage Room”
Launching of the platform and first exhibition. Curators: Pil & Galia Kollective at
Haifa Museum of Art in the frame of the exhibition Haifa-Jerusalem-Tel Aviv
Storageroom features complete digitized exhibitions ready for download and display at various venues by secondary curators
The Storageroom features complete exhibitions that are available for download, which underwent a process of digitalization so as to preserve the full quality after they have been downloaded in their respective formats (video, sound, photography, text etc.). After they have been downloaded, the exhibitions could be displayed in the venues available to the secondary curators (those who chose to download the exhibitions) and the conditions they have at their disposal.
The same exhibition could be displayed simultaneously by agents of completely dissimilar nature and financial means: as the exhibition will be displayed differently, and convey cultural and curatorial perceptions that reflect not only the perception of the exhibition’s curators, but also those of the secondary curators displaying it.
Steps:
1. Exhibition digitized preserving the full quality of media. Exhibiting recommendations and instructions compiled.
2. Exhibition is uploaded by artist or curator, copyright delegated to Storageroom
3. Exhibition downloaded by secondary curator, undigitized and exhibited at available venue
File Transfer Protocol | Opening, Sat. 10.3.12, 20:00 | Haifa Museum of Art
Participating artists: Jem Noble, John Russell, Annabel Frearson, PollyFibre, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Paul Chaney and Kenna Hernly, Darren Banks.
Curators: Pil and Galia Kollectiv
At the opening Ayelet Lerman will perform PollyFibre instructions for scissors music
Post closing (last day to see the show!) 15.3: 11am-2pm
The show with the support of the Russel Berrie Foundation through the Jerusalem Foundation ,Hazira Habeintchumit and the Ministry of Culture.
Museum of the Contemporary
More than 1250 people have already visited The Museum of the Contemporary since its opening on December 31st.
some links to articles about the show (some more in Hebrew)
Graham Lawson, The Jerusalem Post
and some pics
Opening days and hours: Mon. and Wed. from 11am to 2pm. Thurs. and Sat. 1pm-4pm. Closing: 31.2.12 | Sala-Manca performs every Monday at 13:00 and every Saturday at 14:30 | Free entrance
With the support of the Russel Berrie Foundation through the Jerusalem Foundation , Hazira Habeintchumit and the Ministry of Culture.
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On saturday 21.1.2012, two performnaces:
14:30 Temple of Contemporary | Performance by Sala-Manca
15:00 Performance by Jason Lim (singapur)
Jason Lim was born in Singapore in 1966. He studied at Central St Martins College of Art & Design. He’s repertoire of works encompasses ceramics, video art, installation art and performance art. He has organized and created various platforms for alternative art practitioners to meet and collaborate. In 2007 he presented Just Dharma and Light Weight at the Singapore Pavilion in the 52nd Venice Biennale.He is the Artistic Director of Future Of Imagination 7 – International Performance Art Event in Singapore 2011.
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The Museum of the Contemporary
The first exhibition produced at the Museum of the Contemporary’s physical space is an exhibition of Sala-Manca group The exhibition features new sculptures, sound works and performances created especially for the exhibition, in conjunction with works created in collaboration with Hadas Ophrat, Wanja Shaub, Mamuta collective and MamutaEduLAb. The exhibited works serve as a comment on local history, urban politics and the architectural structure in which the exhibition is held – an Arab house in Ein Karem located midway along the pilgrimage trail to the Church of the Visitation. The building was declared absentee property by the State of Israel in 1948 and purchased by the artist Daniela Passal in 1972 who later donated it towards the establishment of an art centre - the Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art and Media Centre, which have been operating on site since October 2009.
Opening days and hours: Mon. and Wed. from 11am to 2pm. Thurs. and Sat. 1pm-4pm. Closing: 31.2.12
With the support of the Russel Berrie Foundation through the Jerusalem Foundation , Hazira Habeintchumit and the Ministry of Culture.
Visitor Hours: Monday and Wednesday 11:00-14:00; Thursday and Saturday 13:00-16:00
Every Saturday at 14:30 and Monday 13:00: live performance by Sala-Manca
Free Entrance
The Museum of the Contemporary - Grand Opening
Opening of Sala-Manca exhibition
Saturday 31st December 2pm-5pm
performances by Uri Katsenstein and Revital Topiol; Sala-Manca
“If Mount Herzl is the mountain of remembrance or the mountain of Zionist historical consciousness, by way of the line stretching between Yad Vashem and Israel’s national cemetery, then in the topography of Israeli remembrance, Ein Karem is the wadi of oblivion or the valley of Zionist historical subconscious. The New Museum of the Contemporary constitutes a new point on the map of institutions of Israeli consciousness, illustrating its three-dimensional triangle. Of the three points, the museum is the deepest point.” (Rodriguez, from the curatorial text of the museum’s inaugural exhibition)
The first exhibition produced at the Museum of the Contemporary’s physical space is an exhibition of Sala-Manca group. This is the group’s first exhibition since 2006. The exhibition will feature new sculptures, sound works and performances created especially for the exhibition, in conjunction with works created in collaboration with Hadas Ophrat, Wanja Shaub and Mamuta collective. The exhibited works serve as a comment on local history, urban politics and the architectural structure in which the exhibition is held – an Arab house in Ein Karem located midway along the pilgrimage trail to the Church of the Visitation. The building was declared absentee property by the State of Israel in 1948 and purchased by the artist Daniela Passal in 1972 who later donated it towards the establishment of an art centre - the Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art and Media Centre, which have been operating on site since October 2009.
Free Arab Language Lessons
10 meetings. From the beginning of January. For more info and inscription: prod@mamuta.org
The Collection - The Storage Room
The collection features complete exhibitions that are available for download, which underwent a process of digitalization so as to gain their full quality after they have been downloaded in their respective formats (video, sound, photography, text etc.). After they have been downloaded, the exhibitions could then be displayed in the venues available to the secondary curators (those who chose to download the exhibitions) and the conditions they have at their disposal. The same exhibition could be displayed simultaneously by agents of completely dissimilar nature and financial means: as the exhibition will be displayed differently, and convey cultural and curatorial perceptions that reflect not only the perception of the exhibition’s curators, but also those of the secondary curators displaying it.
Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art & Media Center
Call for Applications for Artist’s Workspace
Deadline:15.12.11 - Expected entrace: End of January 2012
Visual artists, sound artists, designers, architects, curators, and researchers in the arts, are invited to submit applications for a workspace at Mamuta.
Recipients of the workspace will be entitled to the following:
Mamuta’s expectations of participating artists:
In order to submit your application, please fill in the following form:
To send video please do it or by post or via YOUSENDIT.com (more details here).
For further information please contact us
Submissions deadline for first committee: Decenber 15, 2011
*Please note that applications may be submitted throughout the year. The applications review committee, comprised of people from the artistic field, meets once every six months.
About the Mamuta Project
The Mamuta Project at the Daniela Passal Art & Media Center is a center for artistic creation, encounters, research, and display of art. The Center is comprised of artists’ workspaces; video, sound, and electronics labs; guest apartments; and a wood, metal, and plastics workshop. The goal of the project is to advance individual art projects and to create a forum for artists from different media, as well as curators, architects, designers, and researchers, who wish to create in the spirit of cooperation, dialogue, and technological innovation.
Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art & Media Center offers guidance and support for the development of its artists’ individual projects, and initiates and produces projects at the Center (El-Dan House, Ein Kerem) as well as at other sites in and outside of Jerusalem—in cooperation with institutions and individuals in Israel and abroad. The project is dedicated to creating conditions for developing an active community of artists, allowing for personal development alongside collaborative work, through an engagement with the place and time.
Mamuta is a collaborative project of Sala-Manca Group and the Jerusalem Foundation
The Daniela Passal Art & Media Center, El-Dan House, 59 Madregot Habikur Street, Ein Kerem
Closing date: Saturday 19.11 - It will be open from 12:00 till 20:00
Line - Einat Amir and Guy Yitzhaki
curators: sala-manca
The living room is wall-papered with drawings. A projection
onto the drawings creates a hybrid image. In the space
between the projection and the drawing, strings diverge and
converge, transforming into a three-dimensional image that
changes with the projection. Elsewhere, on the living-room
floor, a projected drawing is thickened by drops of water.
The scenery changes as in a nighttime stroll through the
forest out of a Japanese animated film.
In the library, a book of sketches by Einat and Guy converses
with Illuminated Manuscripts by David Small. As the
spectator browses through the book, the drawings projected
onto it change. They are like memories of digital sketches
from a different place—a combination of the manual craft
and the digital craft. The exhibit is rounded out by Einat’s
drawings, hung in the living-room of the house.
The joint exhibition, Line, was commissioned by Mamuta in
order to bring to fruition the potential of dialogue between
the two artists, which began about two years ago when they
began their residencies in the Center’s shared studio space, and continued with various projects (see the interview with Jan Tichy). It was a successful realization of Mamuta’s choice not to place walls between the studio spaces. Their dialogue
stemmed from Einat’s curiosity about new media and from her desire to penetrate the world of programming and the projected image, which is Guy’s artistic world. Einat feels that with these media she will be able to deepen the investigation of the dimension of time in her own work. For his part, Guy believes that the encounter with the materiality of Einat’s works can broaden his own experimental style—
which entails the creation and projection of images through algorithms that react to physical structures. Their collaboration creates a unique language, combining
two different semiotic systems—that of drawing, craft, and text, and that of the digital image. Thanks to its precision, the connection is fascinating, poetic, and challenging.
The exhibit is the culmination of a year and a half of work at Mamuta, in which the two artists began to develop their common language. Line is the first closing of a circle. This point is only a beginning.
Lea and Diego (Sala-Manca group)
Curators and directors of Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art
and Media Center
Opening: 29/10 - Closing: 19/11
